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Lewis
was
the representative for California’s 41st congressional district
and was a Republican.
He
served from 2003 to 2012.

He was previously
the representative for California’s 40th congressional district
as a Republican
from 1993 to 2002;
the representative for California’s 35th congressional district
as a Republican
from 1983 to 1992;
and
the representative for California’s 37th congressional district
as a Republican
from 1979 to 1982.

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Lewis is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below.
Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives
in 2013
positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

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Jun 23, 2011. Passed 304/117.
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Mar 17, 2010. Passed 386/33.
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Missed Votes

From Jan 1979 to Jan 2013, Lewis missed 1,372 of 20,090 roll call votes, which is 6.8%.
This is
much worse than
the median of 2.6%
among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013.
The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000